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JTwo sounds jump to mind at the mere mention of Deliverance. The first is the melodious bluegrass plink from Arthur Smith’s Dueling Banjos, performed by the eponymous instrument and an acoustic guitar harmonizing with it. The second sound, much less pleasant, is the sharp, painful cry of Ned Beatty, who squeals like a pig to …

During Barack Obama’s presidency, Jordan Pele was inspired by the illusion of equality in the United States and created the essential film, get out. It was Peele’s impassioned response to a complacent country obsessed with revisionist history that acted as if it lived in a post-racial society. In his second film, Peele swung hard with …

Jits epic-scale adaptation of a series of novels by Vilhelm Moberg deserves its 148-minute runtime, giving the plot enough space to cover a broad and deep story of a Swedish community’s transition to the New World in the middle of the 19th century. You’d think that kind of coming to America story would now be …

Robert Rafelson was born on February 21, 1933 in New York. His father was a hat maker who expected his sons to enter the family business. But Mr Rafelson found inspiration in his uncle, screenwriter Samson Raphaelson, who worked with director Ernst Lubitsch on numerous films, including ‘Trouble in Paradise’ and ‘The Shop Around the …

DALY CITY, Calif. (KGO) – Daly City Honored Comedian Jo Koy Friday by declaring it “Jo Koy Day” and giving him the key to the city. They are celebrating his upcoming film titled ‘Easter Sunday’ which is based in Daly City and celebrates its rich Filipino-American culture. “I wanted to tell a story about my …

Comment this story Comment TOKYO — Since moving to Japan a year ago, I’ve stopped scanning large rooms as soon as I walk in to mentally imagine an escape route in case of a gunfight. It’s a habit I picked up while living in the United States, where more than 20,000 people were killed by …

The research report studies the smart window films market using different methodologies and analyzers to provide accurate and in-depth market insights. For better understanding, it is divided into several parts to cover different aspects of the market. Each location is further elaborated to help the reader understand each region’s growth potential and contribution to the …

As the longtime president of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, Sonny Barger, who died at the age of 83, was the epitome of the outlaw biker. It was something he had earned, but also an image he cultivated with charisma and shrewdness, making the Hells Angels a global brand. Although law enforcement saw the Angels …

This practice inspired Ingrid Bergman’s work for years, until her first collaboration with Italian neorealist Roberto Rossellini in 1949. Bergman had been shooting films in America since “Intermezzo” and with directors who all seemed to prioritize his “best side”. But when she moved to Italy, she found herself working with a radically different type of …

The Federal Government will work with Amazon Prime Video to build capacity and improve local content skills of Nigerians in the film production industry. Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, made the announcement on Wednesday during a stakeholder meeting with Amazon Prime Video officials. Amazon Prime Video is an American subscription video-on-demand streaming and …

Over the weekend, eagle-eyed TikTok and Instagram users noticed similarities between several paintings on display at the Guggenheim Bilbao and photographs taken by a queer black artist, raising concerns of plagiarism. The paintings are by Basque artist Gala Knörr and depict various views of the black cowboy. They look like images from a stop motion …

‘Thor: Love and Thunder,’ the latest film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, grossed an estimated $143 million domestically when it opened this weekend, according to disney (SAY). This figure lives up to the expectations of the industry, which had made approximately $150 million for the film in North America. While this isn’t a record-breaking first, …

Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon play a couple whose relationship is threatened by another man in Both sides of the blade. Courtesy of Gaëlle Rapp-Tronqui hide caption toggle caption Courtesy of Gaëlle Rapp-Tronqui Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon play a couple whose relationship is threatened by another man in Both sides of the blade. Courtesy …

How “Hallelujah,” Leonard Cohen’s hymn to the sacred and the profane, ended up going from a deep cut on an album by Cohen’s label considered unreleased to one of the most ubiquitous songs in the world. beginning of the 21st century? This is the question that animates “Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a trip, a song”, an …

“I always tend to go back to the idea that Hitchcock was the supremely calculating exploiter of the medium’s full gamut of possibilities. Mainstream and avant-garde, Hollywood and non-Hollywood, editing and feature film, silent and sound, male focus and female accent, and much more,” Charles Barr, author of English Hitchcock, told BBC Culture. “Post-1960 freedoms …

By Titus Techera* Mario Puzo and Francis Ford Coppola’s cinematic masterpiece shines a light on how attempts to overthrow American institutions in the name of superior personal justice can fail catastrophically. Ultimately, human nature will not be subverted. This month, the Tribeca Film Festival celebrated the 50th anniversary of the premiere of The Godfather, an …